LALW223 American Literature Mid-20th Century Masterpieces 3cr

A critical survey of American writings (novels and shorter works of fiction, essays, journalism, poetry) from WWII through the 1960s-a range including Baldwin, Bellow, Cheever, Ellison, Kerouac, Mailer, Nabokov, O’Connor, Salinger, Updike (and their critics)-amid other aesthetic ferment in the aural/visual arts during a quiet (increasingly noisy) crisis in America’s cultural history.